MERCY
Jussi ADLER-OLSEN

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.
Denmark's bestselling crime writer hits British shores, introducing memorable cop duo, Detective Carl Morck and his Syrian assistant Assad. Morck used to be one of Copenhagen's finest detectives, but a bullet almost took his life, and two of his colleagues weren't so lucky. Now his erratic behaviour seems like it's going to cost him his job, but instead he's put in charge of 'Department Q,' a home for apparently hopeless cases.

OPERATION NAPOLEON
INDRIDASON

1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.
A compelling international thriller from the Icelandic author, sweeping from modern Iceland to Nazi Germany at the end of WWII.

The Summer without Men
Siri Hustvedt

Mia Fredricksen's husband Boris has requested a pause in their relationship. "The pause, Mia tells us, was French with limp but shiny brown hair. She had significant breasts that were real, not manufactured, narrow rectangular glasses, and an excellent mind. She was young of course, twenty years younger than I was." Despair and anger lead Mia first to mental breakdown, then to the prairie town of her childhood, where she plans to spend time with her elderly mother and teach poetry to a class of adolescent girls.
For a novel concerned in greater part with pain, rejection, madness and encroaching death, it's an astoundingly joyful read, an apparently artless jumble of scenes, memories, letters and emails, scraps of poetry, rhetorical riffs. Mia rages and repents, but she never loses her mordant sense of humour. "I took it like a woman," she writes of her husband's decision to move in with the Pause. "I wept."

The Mind's Eye
Hakan Nesser

The third novel in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Van Veeteren series. Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight , but is it too late? Drawing a blank after exhaustive interviews, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren remains convinced that something, or someone, in the dead woman's life has caused these tragic events. But the reasons for her speedy remarriage have died with her. And as he delves even deeper, Van Veeteren realizes that the past never stops haunting the present...

THE ART OF DROWNING
By Frances Fyfield

Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no one, and she inspires life; as do her farming parents, with their ramshackle house and its swan-filled lake, the lake where Ivy's daughter drowned. As Rachel grows closer to them all she learns how Ivy came to be married to Carl, the son of a WWII prisoner, as well as the true nature of that marriage to a bullying and ambitious lawyer who has become a judge and who denies her access to her surviving child.

Just take my heart
Mary Higgins Clark

When Natalie Raines, famous Broadway star, is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Gregg Aldrich, whom she was in the process of divorcing, is the chief suspect. What no one knows is that, only days before she was murdered, Natalie accidentally came face to face with the man who killed her former roommate, Jamie Evans. Two years later, career criminal Jimmy Easton comes forward to claim that Aldrich hired him to kill his wife, but he turned the job down.

CITY OF FEAR
Alafair Burke

The breakout novel from the highly acclaimed thriller writer delves into the underworld of the Manhattan nightclub scene. In a city full of victims, it's murder to choose just one...Fresh-faced student Chelsea Hart spends her final night in New York in an elite nightclub with girlfriends and a fake ID. The next morning she is found murdered, in East River Park her celebrated blonde hair hacked off.
Chelsea's murder is eerily similar to three other deaths that occurred a decade ago: the victims were young, female, and in each case, the killer had taken hair as a souvenir. Is Ellie right to have her suspicions, or is she delving too deep into a simple case? Ellie's search for the truth pits her against her fellow cops and places her under the watchful eye of a psychopath, eager to add her to his list...An electrifying thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, City of Fear is for anyone who loves Chelsea Cain and Michael Connelly.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO
By Stieg Larsson

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.

Stalked
K. Brennan

What if your lover vowed to destroy you if you left him? What if he became your tormentor? Stole your freedom? Made you feel crazy? And threatened your life? This is not a story. This is Kate Brennan's life. Kate was an independent, successful single woman when she met Paul, a wealthy, charismatic businessman.
  His polished charm and relentless wooing won him Kate's heart. But only when they moved in together did Kate discover the serial infidelity, unbalanced character and sordid secrets of her Mr Right. When she tries to leave him, he won't let her ...and ten years on, he is still stalking her.

THE ICE PRINCESS
By Camilla Läckberg

Returning to her hometown after the death of her parents? writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of Erica?s childhood friend? Alex? is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed? her body frozen in an ice-cold bath? it seems? at first? that Alex has taken her own life. When Erica delves further? however? it becomes clear that her death is connected to events long in the past. And as she and local detective Patrik Hedstrom come closer to the truth? they are drawn into a web of deception that someone is willing to do anything to protect...

A NOT SO PERFECT CRIME
By Teresa Solana

Twins Eduard and Borja are private detectives with a reputation for quietly helping the wealthy citizens of Barcelona hide their secrets. So when politician Lluis Font decides he is being cuckolded it is to Eduard and Borja he immediately turns. After all, the situation might endanger his position, and that is his main concern. Then, Font's wife is found poisoned by a marron glace from a box of sweets that have appeared anonymously at her home. On one level, this is a straightforward mystery, who killed her?

COLLECTED STORIES
By Peter Carey

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form. The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour , a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release.
With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back

HYPOTHERMIA
ARNALDUR   INDRIDASON

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Maria, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a seance that Maria had attended, his curiosity is aroused.

Driven by a need to find answers that even he does not fully understand, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.

The sign
Raymond   Khoury

A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet's eco-coffin. Then someone calls out, pointing at something up in the sky overhead. The camera pans up and they look up to see a blazing symbol clear, burning high over the bleak, deserted terrain. Thus begins a series of strange events worldwide as the mysterious sign appears over the sites of conflict, natural disasters and terrorist atrocities. What can it portend? The world is wracked with both fear and hope.

Blood's a rover
James Ellroy

It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned.
Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him away from the darkness and into an even greater darkness. Dwight Holly: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes.
As Hoover's power wanes his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation. Don Crutchfield: is a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover. All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction.

The true deceiver
Tove   Jansson

In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with truth and lies, nothing can be taken for granted. By the time the snow thaws, both their lives will have changed irrevocably.

Where Are You Now?
Mary Higgins Clark

How far would you go to keep a secret? It has been ten years since 21-year-old Mack went missing. A Columbia University senior, he walked out of his room and has not been seen since. Every year he calls his mother on her birthday, on his birthday, and on Mother's Day.   He assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frenzied questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father on 9/11 does not bring him home. Mack's sister, Caroline, has now endured two family tragedies.
Determined to solve the mystery surrounding her brother's disappearance, she sets out to discover the truth. But with it comes a secret that someone will do anything to protect, leading her to a deadly confrontation with an unexpected enemy...

THE LOCKED ROOM
THE MARTIN BECK SERIES
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö were husband and wife. They were both committed Marxists and, between 1965 and 1975, they collaborated on ten mysteries featuring Martin Beck. Four of the books have been made into films, most famously " The laughting Policeman", which starred Walter Matthau.
In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost importance. Haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and trying to recover from the break-up of his unhappy marriage, Beck throws himself into the case to escape from the prison that his own life has come to resemble.

It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe, Russia and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy.
Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace ...

This is the fantastic fourth classic instalment in the "Martin Beck" detective series from the 1960s, the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. The "Martin Beck" series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning Mankell; Graham Greene to Jonathan Franzen.
The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience. On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin.
The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Martin Beck of the Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck's best detectives and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason. With its wonderfully observed lawmen, its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, "The Laughing Policeman" has long been recognised as a classic of the police procedural.